Carla Bruni - Another Nude Photo of French First Lady Surfaces
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Model Behavior: Carla Bruni in a photo sans all the expensive clothes during her pre-French First Lady days. Photo: Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin
"Carla Bruni in Bed" -- a tasteful black and white image captured by the soft and feminine lens of legendary photographer Pamela Hanson in 1994 -- depicts the then model with nothing more than white sheets strategically covering her nether regions.
According to The Daily Beast, one of the ten numbered prints went up for auction on June 4 at Villa Grisebach Auktionen, a Berlin auction house, with bids starting at $3,380.
Last year's Bruni in the buff photo sold for a whopping $91,000 at a New York auction, but this photo didn't generate quite as much cash, selling for $19,600 to an anonymous bidder.
The real question is whether hubby and French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, was the anonymous bidder. Would he outbid everyone to take home what he gets to see everyday for free?
Style Evolution of Carla Bruni
On April 27, Bruni-Sarkozy met Princess Letizia of Spain. The European first ladies dressed up for a gala dinner at the Zarzuela Palace outside Madrid. Bruni went for classic, Audrey Hepburn-esque glamour in a black backless dress, while the Princess donned a dress befitting of her title - an eggshell blue satin gown with a glittering train.
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This week marks Bruni-Sarkozy's inaugural visit to the U.S. as First Lady of France. Since marrying French President Nicolas Sarkozy in February after a whirlwind romance, Madame Sarkozy has charmed diplomats, heads of state and even the notoriously critical French public.
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The First Lady and President Nicolas Sarkozy in New York on September 23, 2008. In town for the United Nations General Assembly, Sarkozy was given the "World Statesman Award."
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Keeping up with Carla: Bruni-Sarkozy puts her hubby through his paces on the streets of NYC on September 22, 2008. Later she joined U.S. First Lady Laura Bush for lunch at a museum.
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Madame Bruni-Sarkozy (in a purple Christian Dior suit) looks a bit shocked at a Bastille Day ceremony in July. Earlier that week, the singer/songwriter did the seemingly impossible and startled French sensibilities with her new album, on which she sings "You are my junk. More deadly than Afghan heroin. More dangerous than Colombian white (powder)," adding: "My guy, I roll him up and smoke him."
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On the same album Bruni-Sarkozy sings that "I am a child/ Despite my 40 years/ Despite my 30 lovers/ A child," which must have been a great conversation starter when she and her husband welcomed Pope Benedict XVI and a contingent of priests from the Vatican in early September.
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Earlier this summer, Bruni-Sarkozy played hostess to another religious leader. The Dalai Lama showed the retired super model the proper way to wear a Tibetan prayer shawl.
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Entertaining famous and powerful men is nothing new for Bruni, who was at one time better known for her boyfriends than her career. Past conquests include musicians Eric Clapton (her date at this 1992 party thrown by Sting) and Mick Jagger.
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The British papers went wild for Carla when she and her husband made a state visit to London in March. Columnists were torn: was she the new Jackie Kennedy or Diana, reborn? Fashion insiders were unanimous however, in heaping praise on the 40-year-old's wardrobe, which consisted of the best of the Paris couture houses.
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For her meeting with the Queen at the ceremonial welcome at Windsor, Bruni made the smart but safe fashion choice: Dior.
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Vivienne Westwood just presented her Anglomania collection during Berlin's Fashion Week. As usual, we were wow'ed by the Great Dame of fashion. There's no show like a Vivienne show!
Mischa Barton's days as an A-list actress are basically over. But, she's still big in fashion. From New York to Berlin, this girl will show up anywhere! Although actual Germans Heidi Klum and Diane Kruger didn't feel the need to make an appearance at their country's fashion week, no worries -- Mischa was there to make a scene instead.
The fashion scene in Berlin has grown steadily over the past ten years. With a vibrant youth culture based in the low-rent sections of the eastern part of the city, it's no surprise that ambitious endeavors in fashion, art and music have come out of the once-divided German capital. For the most part though, the avant-garde designs from Deutscheland have been considered niche-market novelties -- not collections for widespread consumption. 
Believe it or not, fashion is huge in Germany. Even though the Rhineland may not have droves of famous designers like its European brethren Italy and France, the cultural presence of the fashionable arts is well, omnipresent. From countless magazines to endless catalogs and stores, the nation of Germany is, in the word of The Kinks, a dedicated follower of fashion. 
Sure, he won the design competition for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center back in 2003, and sure he catapulted into the limelight as one of the world's greatest architects.
